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Re: [O] automatically follow symlink to other folder when loading agenda
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J. David Boyd |
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Re: [O] automatically follow symlink to other folder when loading agenda |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Mar 2015 13:05:51 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (cygwin) |
address@hidden (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) writes:
> J. David Boyd writes:
>
>> I have 4 files I use for work in my main org folder. And I have
>> a personal.org in another folder, that is inside of Dropbox.
>>
>> I created a symlink to personal.org in my main org folder. When
>> I start emacs and load the agenda, it asks me
>>
>> Symbolic link to Git-controlled source file; follow link? (y or
>> n)
>>
>> Is there some setting (that I can't seem to find) that will
>> always just allow this, rather than querying me?
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
> (setq vc-follow-symlinks t)
> #+END_SRC
>
> BTW, I think that using dropbox in a git controlled directory
> might not be a good idea: if there are conflicts of files inside
> of the .git directory between two machines, you will never notice
> them because dropbox doesn't report them, so the actual git repos
> might be different between the two machines. I you are using git,
> why don't you clone the main org directory in the other machine
> and pull changes when you use the other machine?
>
> Best,
Thanks for the warning. Git is actually going to go away on a few of those
folders. I was using that to keep synced between a few linux machines, but am
going to use dropbox instead. I don't need the level of versioning that git
provides for the few config files and org files that I have there.
Dave